There are the folks who slip into the pew for Christmas Eve candlelight service and Easter morning mass. There are the football dabblers who tune in as the wild-card playoffs commence and the college hoops followers who are mad for the game only come March. We're not judging, just saying.

The Academy Awards are no different. That's why there are so many opportunities in the area to see Sunday's Oscar contenders onscreen.

Missed Shawn Christensen's live-action short "Curfew" at the Boulder International Film Festival last week? Head to the Mayan in Denver, where the live-action shorts package, along with the animated shorts, is playing. Want to see "Argo" one more time before the "envelope, please?" There's a big screen for that, too.

The International Film Series at Muenzinger Auditorium on the University of Colorado campus is offering the Oscar-nominated animated shorts this weekend. The Mayan, 110 Broadway, is offering the Oscar animation and the live-action shorts.

For a dose of short docs, head to the Denver Film Society's Sie FilmCenter for the Oscar-nominated documentary shorts package.

If you haven't already caught the documentary feature front-runner "Searching for Sugar Man," Malik Bendjelloul's film about South Africa's pop culture adoration of Detroit-born rocker Rodriguez is still at the Mayan.

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